Why is free speech important? When free speech comes into conflict with other values, why should free speech win?
I aspire here to tl;dr Mill’s work, and present his urgent and living reasons that free speech is important, and why it should weigh heavily against other values.
Source: Why is Freedom of Speech Important? | The View from Hell
RE: “On Liberty”, Chapter 2: “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion”, by John Stuart Mill, 1859